---
type: "Bill"
title: "Secondary Water Metering Requirements"
description: "Secondary Water Metering Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 251"
citation: "Utah SB 251 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Natural Resources", "New Rulemaking Authority", "State Engineer", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hinkins, David P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68657e63-c723-4874-8f5c-af6474152f32"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0251.html"
source_hash: "025ee8b28a5aae7c2e57cc36e966cc3217488cc92fdad26a5a5889f09ee596f7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah SB 251 (2023) — Secondary Water Metering Requirements

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillint/SB0251.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0251.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hinkins, David P. — primary (person)
- Snider, Casey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-16** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-02-17** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-02-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-27** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-27** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2023-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-03** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-03** to Senate
- **2023-03-03** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-06** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-14** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68657e63-c723-4874-8f5c-af6474152f32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).